“And everyone from the folks that own the Ohio Casualty complex, which is almost 500,000 square feet in our downtown, (who) traveled out to Pennsylvania to meet with the Spooky Nook folks in the last two weeks, to some of the largest regional development companies that are asking, ‘What’s available downtown? What’s available with respect to empty land?’ because there’s interest in new hotel construction and other things.
“A lot of the things that we’ve worked on, at least during my time here, with this city council, has been how do we set the table to keep bringing in development, to keep our revenues sustainable, so we can keep providing the core services that residents want?”
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